Malicious Office (OLE) / .DOCX — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f038b6d0aba02556…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

157.2 KB Created: 2020-10-19 11:46:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 27e780b1a693632b87450cb203af06fe SHA-1: 4f3df1d621d0439ea4b92cde4d2124bbb949bd75 SHA-256: f038b6d0aba025565c462f4734a37156e9312081033f7cc0e99087e7064ed77f
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious File

The sample contains a VBA macro that is automatically executed upon opening the document, as indicated by the OLE_VBA_DOCOPEN and OLE_VBA_PCODE_AUTOEXEC_EXEC heuristics. This macro uses CreateObject, suggesting it attempts to download and execute a secondary payload. The ClamAV detection further confirms its malicious nature. The document body appears to be heavily obfuscated or corrupted, providing no clear user-facing lure.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Trojan.Agent-9780503-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Trojan.Agent-9780503-0
  • Document_Open macro high OLE_VBA_DOCOPEN
    Document_Open macro
  • CreateObject call high OLE_VBA_CREATEOBJ
    CreateObject call
  • VBA p-code auto-exec with execution tokens high OLE_VBA_PCODE_AUTOEXEC_EXEC
    Compiled VBA/cache stream contains an auto-execution token together with shell/download/object-execution tokens. This catches p-code-only or source-extraction-failure macro documents where visible source is unavailable.
  • Suspicious extracted artifact high EXTRACTED_FILE_STATIC_TRIAGE
    One or more files extracted from inside this sample matched static suspicious-content checks such as script obfuscation, encoded payload blobs, packed data, or execution/download terms.
  • VBA macros detected medium OLE_VBA_MACROS
    Document contains VBA macro code
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/main

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
df3f11a486897c7a189da6e4d0ac7fa240cbe9ec205152865e455c6dee8f09c5
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 15642 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.